Saturday, July 28, 2012

bead soup reveal 7-28-12

Title: FROM THE HEART

When the Bead Soup ingredients arrived, I fell in love with the southwest color beads and the beautiful delicate heart shaped pendant bead that came from Cheryl Roe. I started visualizing necklace designs and ran into two self inflicted problems. I wanted to lengthen the look of the heart pendant, but the bead hole ran from side to side. In my mind, I saw delicate and I wanted statement, how could I accomplish a

bold statement with the small beautiful heart? I placed the ingredients in the hands of my muse, and allowed my intuition to take over. I constructed a wire and clay base. I added a hand painted textured button to bring the eye to the area of the heart pendant which was now suspended by a delicate chain. I continued to add various charms to create texture and volume. This included a copper colored faux resin bead to pick up the color of the copper wire clasp which I separated and placed one on each side as they became charms.

Among the charms are, a mother of pearl shell that a student brought for me from the beaches of New Zealand, a tassel made from silks that came with me from teaching in Japan, handcrafted and painted fabric beads from my line of beads called Modern Acorns, and a bunch of other favorite orphaned beads. I added two sizes of round wire circles to repeat the round shape of the button. The lovely beads that Cheryl sent are attached to the wire circles and a small patinated brass clasp holds everything in place. All in all I am very happy with the end result. My muse presented me with bursts of inspiration and improvisatory moments where I added, subtracted, shifted, broke apart, and melted together most of the ingredients.

Please visit Cheryl's website to see the beautiful necklace that she created with the ingredients that I sent to her. Thanks Cheryl for being my partner and for the wonderful ingredients you sent me.

83 comments:

You definitely succeeded with your mission to create a statement with the Heart Bead... Wow that is definitely a statement piece and screams out with love and culture, it is rich and fulle of texture and whimsy... nice...

Nice to meet you, Cory, again. I don't think I saw your profile pic before. You've come up with quite a lovely creation here. I see it on royalty! Now I have to go see what Cheryl did with your bead gift.

Wow, that beauty is loaded with beady goodness! I love how you transformed that lovely heart focal. If I wore this I would certainly be distracted, and playing with it the whole time. It's a fabulous piece!

And here I go browsing along and then BANG I smack right into an ARTISTA! That's some work of art, not just a piece of jewelry. I'm in awe and inspired. I love that you participated so people like me can be challenged to go a little further. Thank you.

Now this is a necklace!!! Intriguing, tribal, refined, wholly 'organic' - all co-existing harmoniously. This is *clearly* the product of opening your mind and soul to provide a conduit for the universe to speak. In short, just plain ART. I'm so glad the hop led me to visit!

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It was a cold day in Paris... I found someone else he said, as he packed a bag and left me, leaving behind his favorite navy blazer and red silk tie. In anger and tears, I ripped the blazer to shreds, cut up the tie, and tore into the jewelry he had gifted me....Today I design artisan jewelry and accessories from those shreds of fabric, buttons off the blazer, and bits of broken jewelry. Every piece has a story...SWEET REVENGE !!!